Habitat Features and Strategies for the Sustainable Development in the Alentejo Region

The unfavoured Portuguese regions have a level of life and economic
growth rates lower than favoured regions, and the mean of European Union
and hence have less entrepreneurial activities. The adoption of strategies of
sustainable development driven by entrepreneurship phenomena could be a
viable solution. Thus, the likely relationships between entrepreneurship and
regional features were described, and sources of entrepreneurship opportunities
for strategies based on the own regional resources and competitive advantages
were identified. The paper concludes that, for the Alentejo region, some habitat
variables should be reinforced for promoting entrepreneurship and sustainable
development, and the main opportunities are related to the economic activities
that belong to the regional productive profile of specialization.